Tag: Senate
Forex fraud: Senate calls on FG to blacklist guilty companies, banks
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs on Thursday urged the Federal Government to blacklist companies and banks found…
Senate lauded for rejecting Kaduna Govt’s $350m loan application
The Democratic People’s Party (DPP) on Wednesday praised the Senate for rejecting the 350 million dollars loan application by the…
Drug abuse: Senate initiates 2 bills
The Senate has developed two draft bills for legislation to tackle drug abuse. This was part of the outcome of…
Saraki eulogises colleagues as 8th Senate passes 201 bills
As the 8th Senate passed its 201st bill on Thursday, the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has commended…
Senate rejects El-Rufai’s $350m World Bank loan request
The Senate on Thursday rejected the request of Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i to secure a 35 million dollar World Bank loan…
2017 budget must run till May 31 – Senate
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Ministry of Finance to allow the 2017 Budget run till May 31 instead…
Senate inaugurates committee to idenitfy recurring mass waec failure
The Senate has directed its Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) to interact with the Minister of Education to identify the…
Senate receives committee report on EFCC/DSS officers’ clash
The Senate on Wednesday received the report of its Ad hoc Committee Investigating the clash between officers of EFCC, NIA…
Senate re-introduces Electoral Act Amendment Bill
The Senate on Tuesday started a fresh move toward reordering the sequence of elections by reintroducing the Bill to amend…
Senate confirms 3, rejects 1 CBN Monetary Policy Committee nominees
The Senate on Thursday confirmed three nominees for appointment as members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central…
Senate, Reps to pass 2018 budget on April 24
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have resolved to pass the 2018 budget on April 24.
Senate vows to allocate adequate funds for Navy War College
The Senate on Thursday said it would allocate adequate funds for the take-off of the Naval War College building in…
Electoral Act Amendment Bill: Senate expresses reservation on court order
The Senate on Thursday expressed reservation on the Federal High Court’s order stopping the National Assembly from taking further action…
2018 budget: No scheduled date for passage yet – Senate
The Senate on Tuesday said there was no date yet for the passage of the 2018 Budget.
Senate calls for state-of-emergency in health sector
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to declare a state-of-emergency in the country’s public health sector over decay…
Senate committee urges regulatory agencies to check rice smuggling
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, Sen. Hope Uzodinma has called on relevant agencies of the government to…
IGP summoned over Dapchi Girls’ abduction
The Senate on Thursday, summoned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mr Ibrahim Idris and the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur…
Senate rejects bill proposing skirts for NYSC female members
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill proposing the option of wearing of skirts by female members of the National…
Nigerian Senate approves conference report on NFIU autonomy
The Senate on Wednesday approved the conference committee report on a bill that will grant autonomy to Nigerian Financial Intelligence…
Senators fight for youths, urge Buhari to sign Peace Corps bill
The Senate on Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to review his position in withholding assent on the bill to establish…
Senate urges Nigerian Govt to review automotive policy
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, has urged Federal Government to review its Automotive…
Senate decries “gross abuse of government’s fiscal policies” by companies
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs, on Tuesday decried what it described as “gross abuse of government’s fiscal…
Illegal migration: EU registers 10,000 cases in 2 months
The European Union (EU), said it had recorded no fewer than 10,000 cases of irregular migration within the last two…
Senate calls for rehabilitation centres for Drugs Abuse victims
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Health, to establish rehabilitation centres for victims of…
Senate condemns demolition of APC Secretariat in Kaduna
The Senate on Tuesday condemned the demolition of a structure housing a faction of Kaduna State All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Bill to disfavor dubious acquiring of evidence passes 2nd reading
A Bill to amend the Evidence Act to accommodate trends on admissibility of confessional statements rendering illegally obtained evidence inadmissible…
INEC: Senate confirms 7 RECs, reject 1
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed seven out of the nine nominees for the position of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of…
Senate committee on Security to investigate challenges in Zamfara state
The Senate on Tuesday mandated its Ad hoc Committee on the Review of the National Security Architecture to investigate the…
Senate urges Nigerian Govt to ban importation of palm oil
The Senate on Tuesday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to ban importation of palm oil into the country in…
Senate rejects committee’s shoddy report on Benue Killings
The Senate has rejected a report by its ad hoc committee mandated to find out why the IG of Police…